Hinshaw has strengthened its Commercial Litigation and Business & Commercial Transactions practice groups with the addition of new partners Steven D. Gonzalez and Jose A. Herrera Paez.

Scott Seaman, Co-Chair of Hinshaw’s global Insurance Services Practice Group, is joined by Hilary Harmsworth and Sam Vardy of Howden Insurance Brokers to introduce a new fifty-state survey on U.S. bad faith law and to briefly discuss bad faith law in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

The law firm of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP is pleased to announce that partner Scott Seaman has been named to the Law360 2024 Insurance Authority General Liability Editorial Advisory Board. He joins eight other attorneys nationwide who were selected to serve on the board. Seaman has previously served on Law360 Editorial Advisory Boards in the area of insurance.

Read Mohamed F. Sweify's article published in the September 2025 issue of the New York State Bar Association’s New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer, examining the historical and modern application of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Islamic and Arab cultures.

View the 2025 Annual Insurance Review published by RPC for a comprehensive analysis of the significant factors that influenced the global insurance market over the past year and insights into what to anticipate in 2025.

The newly-released RPC 2022 Annual Insurance Review looks back at the events that shaped the global insurance market in 2021 and looks ahead towards what to expect in 2022. In the Review, Hinshaw’s Insurance Services Practice Group Co-chairs Scott Seaman and Pedro Hernandez review key insurance law developments in the United States, including the following issues:

Chicago-based partner Justyna Regan will moderate a panel entitled "Trade Tensions Between the US and Canada – An Opportunity or Threat for Polish Exporters," at the Polish Investment & Trade Agency (PAIH) Business Forum on November 6, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland. 

Chicago-based partner Barry MacEntee will present at RPC’s 2025 GC Law Firm Risk and Liability Conference in London on October 9, 2025.

Join us for U.S. Trade, Tariffs, and State of the Economy Forum, on July 24, 2025, at Hinshaw's Chicago office, an insightful discussion on U.S. trade, tariffs, and economic policies that brings together experts, policymakers, and industry leaders to explore the current dynamics and future outlook of international trade.

New York-based attorney Mohamed F. Sweify, chair of the Egypt Chapter of the New York State Bar Association's (NYSBA) International Section, and past chair of NYSBA’s International Dispute Resolution Committee, will participate in a virtual CLE panel titled "Nuances of Intellectual Property & Tech-Related Disputes Before WIPO" on August 20, 2025.

Mohamed F. Sweify, is set to deliver opening remarks for the first global event organized by NYSBA’s Egypt Chapter at a virtual panel titled "Crypto, ESG and Global Markets: U.S., Egypt and Brazil Regulatory Shifts & Trends," on April 30, 2025.

Join Chicago-based partner Justyna Regan for a presentation at the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) webinar on April 14, 2025, titled "New US Tariffs: What Should a Polish Entrepreneur Know?"